Welcome to the City of Plantation's Podcast. In this Episode, Dr. Perez, Epidemiologist at Westside Regional Hospital and Deputy Chief Gordon, discuss COVID-19 and important information related to the Coronavirus Pandemic. This Podcast is aimed at keeping the residents of Plantation informed regarding how the City and its various Departments are responding to the COVID-19 Pandemic. Please subscribe to this podcast, as we will be producing new episodes on a regular basis.
Speaker: Dr. Perez, Epidemiologist
Host: Deputy Chief Joel Gordon, PIO
Production: Division Chief Ezra Lubow
Music: Oakwood Station - Summer Breeze Memories
Cover Art: The City of Plantation
Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello plantation. Welcome to the city of plantations podcast. I'm dr J formerly with plantation information radio. Thank you for tuning in. We hope the information provided within the episodes of this podcast helped keep you your family and your friends safe during this pandemic. Today we are pleased to have with us Dr. Daniel Perez, a specialist in infectious disease at Westside regional medical center. As an epidemiologist. Dr. Perez spends his days often nights and now of course weekends dealing with infectious diseases. Unquestionably, Dr. Perez is currently overwhelmed in dealing with the Corona virus outbreak. However, he has graciously agreed to spend some time on his day off with us to speak about coven 19 and its impact on plantation residents. So Dr. Perez, first of all, welcome and thank you for joining us. Thank you for having me. You know, and let me, let me start by just thanking you, your staff and all the healthcare providers out there for really putting themselves in harm's way to try and protect the citizens, not just the plantation, but really globally. So let's dive right into this if we can. What we'd like is if you can just kind of give us an overview of what is coven 19, what is coronavirus, what does it mean, what is it all about? Um, you know, what's happening globally around the world and then maybe focusing in on what's happening in your practice and what you're seeing locally.
Speaker 2 (01:31):
That's a long question there.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
It's a lot to cover. We can break it down if you want
Speaker 2 (01:37):
I think that, um, you know, it's interesting to see this, but Corona viruses have been here for millions of years. Um, we have, as a matter of fact, a flu flu like illnesses are caused by coronaviruses 10 to 25% of them. And, um, but what's going on right now? It's that this is a novel coronavirus it's a, it's a virus as has never been developed or has not been discovered until this, uh, episode. Um, we've been dealing with, um, epidemics, um, obviously ones, smaller proportions for what we're dealing with. Uh, for many years. I mean, as you recall in, um, 2002, um, we had the SARS epidemic, um, which, um, it only affected a very small, uh, amount of people and a very small amount of that that, um, was a little bit scary because the, uh, the, uh, the fatality rate, and we'll talk a little bit more detail about why was that was 10%, but it was only a very limited amount of tests at that time.
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